Leishmaniasis
"Leishmaniasis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A disease caused by any of a number of species of protozoa in the genus LEISHMANIA. There are four major clinical types of this infection: cutaneous (Old and New World) (LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS), diffuse cutaneous (LEISHMANIASIS, DIFFUSE CUTANEOUS), mucocutaneous (LEISHMANIASIS, MUCOCUTANEOUS), and visceral (LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL).
| Descriptor ID |
D007896
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C03.752.300.500 C03.858.560 C17.800.838.775.560
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| Concept/Terms |
Leishmaniasis- Leishmaniasis
- Leishmaniases
- Leishmania Infection
- Infection, Leishmania
- Infections, Leishmania
- Leishmania Infections
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Leishmaniasis" by people in Profiles.
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Franco-Paredes C. The growing challenge of leishmaniasis in travelers. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2014 Nov-Dec; 12(6 Pt A):559-60.
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Crawford GD, Wyler DJ, Dinarello CA. Parasite-monocyte interactions in human leishmaniasis: production of interleukin-1 in vitro. J Infect Dis. 1985 Aug; 152(2):315-22.
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Kirkpatrick CH. Therapeutic potential of transfer factor. N Engl J Med. 1980 Aug 14; 303(7):390-1.